What defines the parent-child relationship? Three things: love, life and lineage.
The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings as His sons and daughters.
Could there be anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God? If anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But there is nothing higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and omnipotent God created Adam and Eve, He secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve to be only second best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, to His partners who share absolute love with Him.
As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent in the creation of human beings and endowed us with the right to equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals, to live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the absolute being , He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and “happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a dynamic mutual relationship. Imagine a professional singer who finds herself on an uninhabited island. She may sing at the top of her voice, but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a partner with whom to share love in order to experience joy and be happy.
This is really great topic. Parent-child relationship is so precious and so important. Lovely topic. Pity in the text there was not much about it... Can you find more verses connected directly to the topic "Love and the Parent-Child Relationship" ;)
ReplyDeleteIf parents have a good and warm parent-child with God, will always be better parents. Such a family can embody God's (true) love. then children will naturally practice true love with parents, their siblings and with their relatives. such families of true love will become the basis for a better community and a better society and the Kingdom of Heaven become reality though such families. Look at this article "true families are the basis of the Kingdom of God. http://familiesoftruelove.blogspot.com
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